This paper describes the Ulster-Scots Musical Revival which started in the late 1990s, and arguesthat neither Hobsbawm & Ranger’s conception of “invented tradition” nor Rosenberg’stheorisation of folk revivals as appropriations of tradition are adequate to understand thisongoing musical and social movement. By comparing the Ulster-Scots revival with earlier “Irishtraditional mus...

Composite restoration materials have been in use for more than two decades as an aesthetic alternative to metal restorations in the posterior region, which bears a great deal of the masticatory load, with increasing frequency in recent years (Kelsey et al, 2000). The early clinical data on the posterior region, gathered in the early 1980s, was not encouraging, primarily due to insufficient mech...

Infection with the intestinal parasite Blastodinium mangini resulted in reduced survival of starved adults of the Mediterranean copepod Oncaea sp. No such effect was measurable for Corycaeus sp. infected by Blastodinium navicula. Both sexes of Oncaea sp. adults were infected by B. mangini and infected copepods were able to mate successfully. However, Oncaea sp. females infected by B. mangini di...

Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. Recent studies have revealed that in the labour force as a whole women generally express themselves as more satisfied with their jobs than men. Our results show tha...

In this paper a Kalman filter is used to cancel noise and interference contained in two accelerometers embedded in a car under performance tests. Here, the frequency bands of the signals of interest and their noise (deterministic as well as stochastic) are not strongly mixed with each other but it is very difficult to diminish the noise by using the classical approach to filtering. This reason,...

The objective of this work is to evaluate the usefulness of a standardized clinical classification of hydroceles in lymphatic filariasis endemic countries to guide their surgical management. 64 patients with hydroceles were operated in 2009-2010, in Level II hospitals (WHO classification), during two visits to Fiji, by the same mobile surgical team. The number of hydroceles treated was 83. We d...